Sentence examples for had been curbed from inspiring English sources

Ahead of this week's alert, Beijing had already been in a state of orange alert, meaning some construction and industry had been curbed.

Many said they believed honking had been curbed somewhat, but wondered if they had simply stopped noticing it, allowing the horn to become the ambient soundtrack of their days.

After pirate radio had been curbed by legislation, the BBC fell in with modern trends and established Radio 1 in September 1967 with a mixture of BBC personalities and pirate DJs; Dee was a key figure.

Rob Moulton, regulatory partner at lawyers Ashurst, said the regulator's powers had been curbed: "This is a great step forward, and signals a pivotal moment in the relationship between the government and the regulators.

Many foreign economists had feared that the country's expansion was too rapid to sustain, but Chinese officials told recent meetings of the International Monetary Fund that inflation had remained below 6percentt and that money supply growth had been curbed.

As to Ms. Morris's charge that information efforts had been curbed, Dr. Robinson said that because of the frequent turnover of Medicaid directors — he is the sixth since 2000 — "our unified outreach program was interrupted".

"This could have been curbed a year ago".

The powers of labour inspectors have been curbed.

Elsewhere in the twin towns, movement has been curbed; gates have turned streets into dead ends.

Disastrous past industry practices – from bloated inventories to excessive sales incentives – have been curbed.

At the very least, the size and scope of it would have been curbed.